Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sullivan’s “Newsroom Confidential” traces her career from The Buffalo News to The New York Times and The Washington Post, but its meat lies in the challenge she puts to fellow journalists in the Trump era. Sullivan became known for her blunt writing about the Times during her years there, tackling such issues as the overuse of confidential sources, its coverage of Hillary Clinton’s emails and national security issues, even poking fun at so-called fashion trends touted by the Styles section.